Section 1300.67 - Scope of Basic Health Care ServicesThe basic health care services required to be provided by a health care service plan to its enrollees shall include, where medically necessary, subject to any copayment, deductible, or limitation of which the Director may approve:
(a) Physician services, which shall be provided by physicians licensed to practice medicine or osteopathy in accordance with applicable California law. There shall also be provided consultation with and referral by physicians to other physicians. (1) The plan may also include, when provided by the plan, consultation and referral (physician or, if permitted by law, patient initiated) to other health professionals who are defined as dentists, nurses, podiatrists, optometrists, physician's assistants, clinical psychologists, social workers, pharmacists, nutritionists, occupational therapists, physical therapists and other professionals engaged in the delivery of health services who are licensed to practice, are certified, or practice under authority of the plan, a medical group, or individual practice association or other authority authorized by applicable California law.(b) Inpatient hospital services, which shall mean short-term general hospital services, including room with customary furnishings and equipment, meals (including special diets as medically necessary), general nursing care, use of operating room and related facilities, intensive care unit and services, drugs, medications, biologicals, anesthesia and oxygen services, diagnostic laboratory and x-ray services, special duty nursing as medically necessary, physical therapy, respiratory therapy, administration of blood and blood products, and other diagnostic, therapeutic and rehabilitative services as appropriate, and coordinated discharge planning including the planning of such continuing care as may be necessary, both medically and as a means of preventing possible early rehospitalization.(c) Ambulatory care services, (outpatient hospital services) which shall include diagnostic and treatment services, physical therapy, speech therapy, occupational therapy services as appropriate, and those hospital services which can reasonably be provided on an ambulatory basis. Such services may be provided at a hospital, any other appropriate licensed facility, or any appropriate facility which is not required by law to be licensed, if the professionals delivering such services are licensed to practice, are certified, or practice under the authority of the plan, a medical group, or individual practice association or other authority authorized by applicable California law.(d) Diagnostic laboratory services, diagnostic and therapeutic radiological services, and other diagnostic services, which shall include, but not be limited to, electrocardiography and electroencephalography.(e) Home health services, which shall include, where medically appropriate, health services provided at the home of an enrollee as prescribed or directed by a physician or osteopath licensed to practice in California. Such home health services shall include diagnostic and treatment services which can reasonably be provided in the home, including nursing care, performed by a registered nurse, public health nurse, licensed vocational nurse or licensed home health aide.(1) Home health services may also include such rehabilitation, physical, occupational or other therapy, as the physician shall determine to be medically appropriate.(f) Preventive health services (including services for the detection of asymptomatic diseases), which shall include, under a physician's supervision,(1) reasonable health appraisal examinations on a periodic basis;(2) a variety of voluntary family planning services;(4) vision and hearing testing for persons through age 16;(5) immunizations for children in accordance with the recommendations of the American Academy of Pediatrics and immunizations for adults as recommended by the U.S. Public Health Service;(6) venereal disease tests;(7) cytology examinations on a reasonable periodic basis;(8) effective health education services, including information regarding personal health behavior and health care, and recommendations regarding the optimal use of health care services provided by the plan or health care organizations affiliated with the plan.(g)(1) Emergency health care services which shall be available and accessible to enrollees on a twenty-four hour a day, seven days a week, basis within the health care service plan area. Emergency health care services shall include ambulance services for the area served by the plan to transport the enrollee to the nearest twenty-four hour emergency facility with physician coverage, designated by the Health Care Service Plan.(2) Coverage and payment for out-of-area emergencies or urgently needed services involving enrollees shall be provided on a reimbursement or fee-for-service basis and instructions to enrollees must be clear regarding procedures to be followed in securing such services or benefits. Emergency services defined in section 1317.1 include active labor. "Urgently needed services" are those services necessary to prevent serious deterioration of the health of an enrollee, resulting from an unforeseen illness, injury, or complication of an existing condition, including pregnancy, for which treatment cannot be delayed until the enrollee returns to the plan's service area. "Urgently needed services" includes maternity services necessary to prevent serious deterioration of the health of the enrollee or the enrollee's fetus, based on the enrollee's reasonable belief that she has a pregnancy-related condition for which treatment cannot be delayed until the enrollee returns to the plan's service area.(h) Hospice services as set forth in Section 1300.68.2.Cal. Code Regs. Tit. 28, § 1300.67
1. Amendment of subsection (c) filed 1-12-83; effective thirtieth day thereafter (Register 83, No. 3).
2. Change without regulatory effect amending introductory paragraph filed 12-22-2000 pursuant to section 100, title 1, California Code of Regulations (Register 2000, No. 51).
3. New subsection (h) filed 6-26-2001; operative 7-26-2001 (Register 2001, No. 26).
4. Redesignation and amendment of former subsection (g) as new subsections (g)(1)-(2) filed 9-16-2003; operative 10-16-2003 (Register 2003, No. 38). Note: Authority cited: Section 1344, Health and Safety Code. Reference: Sections 1317.1, 1345 and 1367, Health and Safety Code.
1. Amendment of subsection (c) filed 1-12-83; effective thirtieth day thereafter (Register 83, No. 3).
2. Change without regulatory effect amending introductory paragraph filed 12-22-2000 pursuant to section 100, title 1, California Code of Regulations (Register 2000, No. 51).
3. New subsection (h) filed 6-26-2001; operative 7-26-2001 (Register 2001, No. 26).
4. Redesignation and amendment of former subsection (g) as new subsections (g)(1)-(2) filed 9-16-2003; operative 10-16-2003 (Register 2003, No. 38).